Five of the 10 agenda items relate to budget reform, with one targeting earmarks. The RSC succeeded in pressing the House GOP leadership last year to seek offsets to supplemental spending on hurricane relief and in ginning up support of the budget-reconciliation bill that reduced spending by $39 billion.

The RSC also calls for making permanent the tax cuts that are set to sunset, enacting ethics reforms, creating private accounts under Social Security, protecting religious freedom, promoting sanctity of life legislation and passing a constitutional amendment that would forbid gay marriage.

Pence and his band of rebels are the only things from keeping this party conservative.If not for people like Pence,this party would be in the minority because millions of real conservatives would leave.People like you are the reason we may lose the house in NOV and that we are getting closer to socialism everyday.

If Pence spent as much time lobbying his cohorts on these issues as he does in front of a microphone than perhaps Congressman Pence who have some credibility on these issues. More and more, Pence is sounding and looking like McLaim and Tancredo - just another anti-Bush media whore!

Pence HAS gotten a lot accomplished. He was the main factor in post-Katrina spending cuts. I suspect you dislike Pence due to ideological differences.

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